Muslims destroying Prophet Ezekiel’s tomb
JPost: Iraq erasing Jewish identity of Prophet Ezekiel from tomb
For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims came to Al-Kifl, a small town south of Baghdad, to visit the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel and pray.
The distinctive Jewish character of the Al-Kifl shrine, namely the Hebrew inscriptions and the Torah Ark, never bothered the gentile worshipers. In [...]
Shia Islam and its hierarchy of scholars
The establishment of the four schools of law meant that Sunni Islam reached its stable form at a relatively early stage of Islamic history. In contrast, Shia Islam’s framework of law is in a continual process of development. Past Shia empires like the Fatamids and present nation-states like Iran have proven to be fertile ground [...]
Sunni concerns over rising Shi’i influence
MEMRI: Saudi-Jordanian Summit Discusses Iranian Influence In Region
During their meeting in Riyadh, Saudi King Abdallah bin Abd Al-’Aziz and Jordan’s King Abdullah II discussed advancing Arab cooperation in order to deal with “the external dangers.”
Arab governments collaborate with Israel to curtail Iran
JPost: Bernard Lewis- Conflict seen as mainly religious
Muslims view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran’s showdown with the West as essentially a religious conflict, an expert on Islam said recently.
“I think that in the Muslim perception, [the conflict] is basically a religious conflict,” said Prof. Bernard Lewis in an address at the sixth annual Jerusalem Conference. [...]
Islam vs Science?
Are Muslim beliefs compatible with critical inquiry? Almost every standard world history textbook celebrates Islam’s golden age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great works of Greek medicine, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of those areas. They improved and named algebra, [...]
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